Good morning,
*@Sarah239*. I'm up too.
For me it's because yesterday we got the keys to the house we're renting, which was supposed to be move-in ready, only to find that there is a leak in the roof with active wet spots on the walls, the carpets haven't been steam cleaned, as the realtor promised they would be, and there's mold in one of the bedrooms and wet walls in another. We've had to cancel the painters we hired that were meant to begin at 9am today.
We understand that wall-to-wall carpeting is basically unavoidable in rental property in London, but we find it to be disgusting so we specifically asked if the carpets would be steam cleaned as part of the professional cleaning pre-handover and we're assured it would be.
We were also assured, before we signed the lease, that the owner was having the roof inspected and any repairs would be taken care of before we moved in. Now we're there and she says it'll be weeks before a leak in the chimney is fixed, and in the meantime there's water coming in when it rains! We cannot paint over actively wet walls and all that dampness and mold isn't healthy for anyone, much less so for a pregnant woman or a baby.
Finally, when we were looking at the house, the previous tenant had all their stuff in it so we couldn't measure. The agent said to just use the floor plan on the listing for the room dimensions. Those ended up being wrong, and now the room that was meant to be the guest room / my husband's office is too small to hold both the guest bed and his desk. Now I either need to make that tiny room baby's room and give up my hope of having a cot, chest of drawers, and a comfy nursing chair in the room, or we have to get rid of our very nice guest bed and just not have a guest room, or we have to put the guest bed in the nursery. I hate all three options!
I was sobbing last night. My poor husband was desperate to make me feel better but there's not much one can do at 7pm on a Friday.
So I'm awake.